Once Upon a Time and the Blue Rat in the Klondike
A rambling frontier reminiscence recounts youth hopes of fairy magic and the harsh realities of trail life. The narrator describes acquiring a small blue pony named the Blue Rat, its fierce bucking, and the struggle to manage him. The tale ends with a rough sale to a Missourian, and a dramatic episode where the pony causes a mogul-like tumble, leaving the fate of the rider uncertain.
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Tyo
Quesnelle
Dippy
Tippy
Washington Irving
New York
Fraser River
Meeithr
Blue Rat
Butte
Blue Colt
Tam
Selkirk Range
Tchincut Lake
Thad
Indiana
Montana
California
Battle Creek
Old Butte
Rocky Mountains
Bine
Mystic Meadows
Detroit Fryee Press
Porto
Ponce
Earth
Rats as good omens and lake disasters haunt navigation
Warned by rats sailors desert ships and captains rely on vermin signs as danger cues. The Idaho sank after longs ride near Long Point with nineteen of twenty one crew drowned. A steward named Old Laly perished as waves washed him overboard while captains claim rats signal unsafe hulls. Mariners debate rats as messengers amid wrecks on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
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EAS Ee
Koamen
Milwaukee
Silver Creek
Lake Erie
Idaho
Long Point
Buffalo
Gill
S Olid
Laly
The Wild Tribes of the Philippines
The Philippines host four major groups the civilized Indians Mohammedans wild Indians and Negritos with the latter two and the civilized shifting since 1519. Savages inhabit Mindoro Palawan and interior islands fighting famine by burning forests for upland crops and scavenging for food. Chiefs wield ceremonial iron daggers while the kris remains a feared weapon. Manila reports note on poison methods and brutal punishments among natives.
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Philippines
Negritos
Atlas
Cebu
Bohol
Formosa
Primitive Luzon tribesmen weapons and customs described
The article details housing, dress, bodily adornment, and ritual practices among North Luzon, Mindanao, and smaller Philippine islands. It notes chiefs’ prohibition on naked towns, skull and trophy displays, and describes poison-making for arrows, bararac daggers, and head-taking legends while contrasting with neighbor groups and dialects.
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Wren
Hobson
Buffalo Ball
Dan
Costa Rica
B. C
London
England
Bergen
Norway
France
Japan
Samoan Islands
Treland
Ontario Archiological Museum
Ottawa
Canada
Ireland
Lefroy
Toronto
Dublin Museum
Dunlavin
County
Kilddre
Cork
Kerry
America
Shafter
Merritt
Brooke
Wheeler
Leo
Otis Fisty
Hawkins
Wood
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Schofield
Hancock
Custer
Mead
Hooker
Thomas
Kearny
Kilpatrick
Pleasanton
Rosecrans
Palmer
Logan
Howard
Buell
Slocum
Burnside
Banks
Butler
General Miles
Lee
Joseph E
Albert Sidney Johnston
Lute Longstreet
Beauregard
Hampton
Bragg
Swigs Alpine Club
Jungrau Railway
Edgar R. Dawson
M. E
Scribner's
The
Abra
Medical News
Manila
Luzon
Borneo
Mindanao
Philippine
London Times Au
Scotland
Boston Herald
Britain
Wales
Great Britain
B. B. Morris, W. J .Rutherford & CO
Wmbrick
Cornet Reynolds
Washington Streets
Augusta, GA
Warren Walkep
Georgia
Ofice and
Reynolds Street
Augusta, Gas
Chas F. Baker
R. T. Smith
Baker & Smith
Firegroo
Reynolds and Campbell
Augusta
P. B. Tobin Cotton Co
Warren Block
Edward C. Fleming
Standard Fire
Commission
Johnston
John Lake
Ss. Co
Columbia
Fletcher EB. Hunnaut
W. D. Holland
Geo. P. White
O. C. Herbert
J. T. Prince
A. S. Arnold
Girls’ Hall
L. C. Latimer
Beulah Reams
S. Sloan Cobb
8. Sloan
J. H. White
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